Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:49:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office Installation Message-ID: <199805290019.JAA02059@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 13:00:52 %2B0100." <E0yf1Ma-0001fz-00@oak66.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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> > Has anyone got this to install, or do I have to hack procfs myself? > maybe you can hexedit the binary so that it tries to open /p/pid/cmdline > instead. of course this necessitates generating a load of /p/2323/cmdline > /p/2324/cmdline of course. perhaps you can also change the binary so > it calls getppid instead or perhaps just get it to use a constant pid > by replacing the insns which call getpid with ones that movl $0, %eax Eeew.. possible but yucky ;) Maybe if I email the Star Office people they'll tell me why :) Buit seriously, I think I'd prefer to change procfs since it would be more useful, and probably not take much longer than hexediting the binary :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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